I'm currently wetting my feet with ASP.NET MVC 3 w/ Razor, and I'm a bit confused about the most appropriate way to render HTML input elements.

As I see it, there are 3 methods to render those elements for a Model's property:

  1. Using the HtmlHelper EditorFor method
  2. Using Html.TextBox method (for string or numeric values)
  3. Using plain-old html input element, and using inline Razor tags to put the value in the element.

What is the recommended method for doing that? I'm a bit concerned with the EditorFor method, since I don't have any control over the rendered HTML, and I thought one of the mail goals of the MVC framework was to avoid the over-abstraction of WebForms.

What do you think? What is the best practice for this?

Thanks!

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